2020 Vision Team

The 222nd General Assembly (2016) created the 2020 Vision Team “to develop a guiding statement for the denomination and make a plan for its implementation with all deliberate speed. The process of developing such a guiding statement will help us to name and claim our denominational identity as we seek to follow the Spirit into the future” (Minutes, 2016, Part I, pp.40, 257 of the electronic journal).

Members

The committee shall be made up of at least six teaching elders and at least six ruling elders, and the following demographic traits should be considered when naming members of the committee:

gender identity

geographic location

inclusion of people under the age of forty (with special attention paid to young adult advisory delegates (YAADs) serving on the Assembly Committee on “The Way Forward” of the 222nd General Assembly (2016)

racial ethnic minorities

those engaged in both parish and validated ministries

theological diversity (people representative of all the “clusters” identified in “When We Gather at the Table”)

The Co-Moderators of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) shall serve as additional, ex officio, members of this committee.

LISTENING SESSIONS

Come and meet a representative from the 2020 Vision Team, tasked by the 222nd General Assembly to develop a guiding statement for the PC(USA). This statement will "help us name and claim our denominational identity as we seek to follow the Spirit into the future.” You will be asked to share and discuss where you see God's movement in the PC(USA) for the future.